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ENGDAHL CLAIMS CAS MEN
TALK GAS AND POLITICS
Uniformed gas company employes
are canvassing ostensibly to sell gas
ranges or exchange new for old
stoves, but actually to talk politics
and make votes for gas company
candidates.
This is going on in the 15th- ward,
according to charges of J. Louis Eng-
dahl, Socialist candidate for alder
man, in a speech at 1813 W. Division
sL, Sunday.
"A woman busy with her house
work hears the doorbell ring," said
Engdahl. "She goes 'to the door and
sees a man in a nifty blue uniform.
He says he's from the gas compariy
and she reads in gold braid letters on
his cap the initials of 'The Peoples
Gas Co.' ,
"It's a good deal of a joke, of
course, for anybody to call it a peo
ple's gas company when it's a fact
that the company belongs fa Sam In
sull, Roger Sullivan, John P. Hop
kins and other men of millions who
got their millions skinning the peo
ple they have named their , corpora
tion after.
"The lady lets him in because he
looks safe and respectable. Once
inside he talks about gas ranges
and politics.
"The Sullivan candidate, Kaindl,
gets all the boosting from these
house-to-house canvassers. In this
connection I would point out that my
opponent, Kaindl, does not deny he is
the Sullivan candidate and the "Roger
Sullivan fortune got its start in gas."
So serious are the charges of Eng
dahl that they aroused the Tribune
to publication of a statement
from an unidentified gas company
official. It is denied uniformed can
vassers" are doing political work. The
official said the company Is taking
no part in the campaign and Sam In
sull's letter to -the council gas-oil
committee whitewashing himself and
the gas company of political activity
is the truth and all else is false in
the present situation.
TMARKHAM CALLS SINKING OF
CITY OF MEMPHIS OVERT ACT
Destruction of the steamship City
Dt Memphis by a German submarine
constitutes an "overt act" in opinion
of President Charles H. Markham of
the Illinois Central railroad, which
owned the ship.
"The vessel was flying an Amer
ican flag, was manned by an Amer
ican crew and was unarmed," Mark
ham saijl. "She carired a cargo
of cotton from the United States to
France in January. On her way
across she was stopped by a subma
rine, but was allowed to proceed
after her papers had been examined.
She left Cardiff on her homeward
voyage March 16.
"There seems to have been no rea
son to sink the sjiip, except that she
was in the restricted zone. The gov
ernment should take action without
any presentation of facts from me if
there is sufficient cause, and I shall
make no protest to the president"
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, WELCOME! A NEW FISH!
Washington, March 20. Another
member of the fish family wishes to
be inrtoduced into good society. His
name is Sable Fish, but for years he
has been traveling under the disrep
utable alias of Black Cod. He does
not belong to the codfish aristocracy,
but is vouched for in the highest
terms by the Bureau of Fisheries, as
entitled to move on to the tables of
the best people in the land. As the
Bureau's bulletin puts it: "the de
mocracy of high prices has upset
the old exclusiveness and has given
to previous unknown or obscure
fishes an opportunity to be pushed
to the fore and to demonstrate that
they are entitled to regard at least
equal to that accorded to those of
longer standing in the community.
The tiled fish has established an
assured position and the gray fish ia
living down the reputation which it
acquired as a pirate, and is acquir
ing respectability as a fish whose ac
auaintance Is worth cultivating."